The upgrade paths for armor begins with the base level armor purchasable from one of the vendors at the Celennia Memorial Library and then further upgrades requiring unlocking the services from Vainrachault and then currency trades per armor piece.

Items to upgrade these armors will be found throughout the game and require a bit of luck and a bit of farming.

Unlocking Upgrade Tiers

You’ll need to unlock each “tier” of upgrading by retrieving items for Vainrachault in the Celennia Memorial Library.

Tier I

To unlock tier I armor upgrading with Vainrachault, you’ll need to provide him:

2,000,000 gil

20 Alexandrite

10 Tanzanite Jewels

This is the first tier to unlock and the easiest. Players should have no problem unlocking this tier at level 75.

Tier IV

This is the fourth and final tier and matches players to various end game content, world bosses, and unique Nocturnal Souls content. Players should have no problem unlocking this tier at level 99 with upgrades from prior tiers.

Conversions

Converting a collection of jewels, conquest points, and gil to Rem’s Tale chapters.

Converting a collection of jewels, imperial standing, and gil to Rem’s Tale chapters.

This service is only available to players who have unlocked Tier IV armor upgrades.

Converting Alexandrite to Tanzanite Jewels

Vainrachault can help you convert Alexandrite to Tanzanite Jewels requires the following materials for each conversion. Players can convert multiples at a time, given they have enough currency and valor points.

With each conversion costing 5000 valor points and the cap of valor points being 50000, players can convert up to 10 tanzanite jewels at a time–requiring 50000 valor points and 300 alexandrites.

Converting Conquest Points to Rem’s Tale Chapters

Vainrachault can help you convert conquest points to Rem’s Tales chapters requires the following materials for each conversion. Players cannot convert multiples at a time and quantities vary depending on the page. In general, costs for pages that upgrade Artifact gear to reforced +3 require more currency than those that upgrade Empyrean gear to reforged +1.

50 alexandrite

35 to 50 tanzanite jewels

200,000 gil per chapter “level”

100,000 conquest points per chapter “level” (conquest points are acquired by defeating experience-granting monsters with the Signet effect active in the original/RoZ zones)

Chapter

Gil

Alexandrite

Tanzanite

Conquest Points

Chapter 1

200,000

50

50

50,000

Chapter 2

400,000

50

50

100,000

Chapter 3

600,000

50

50

150,000

Chapter 4

800,000

50

50

200,000

Chapter 5

1,000,000

50

50

250,000

Chapter 6

200,000

50

35

50,000

Chapter 7

400,000

50

35

100,000

Chapter 8

600,000

50

35

150,000

Chapter 9

800,000

50

35

200,000

Chapter 10

1,000,000

50

35

250,000

Converting Imperial Standing to Rem’s Tale Chapters

Saliyahf in Aht Urhgan Whitegate can help you convert imperial standing to Rem’s Tales chapters requires the following materials for each conversion. Players cannot convert multiples at a time and quantities vary depending on the page. In general, costs for pages that upgrade Artifact gear to reforced +3 require more currency than those that upgrade Empyrean gear to reforged +1.

50 alexandrite

35 to 50 tanzanite jewels

200,000 gil per chapter “level”

100,000 imperial standing points per chapter “level” (imperial standing is acquired by defeating experience-granting monsters with the Sanction effect active in ToAU zones and/or by participating in the Besieged event).